Democracy, Conflict Management, and Militarized Interstate Disputes

民主、冲突管理和军事化州际争端

• 批准号: 9730505
• 负责人: William Dixon
• 金额: $ 10.75万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-02-01 至 2002-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9730505&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Democracy; Conflict; Management; Militarized; Interstate

This project is directed at improving our understanding of the interplay of democracy and third party intermediaries in shaping the contours an outcomes of international conflict. Four empirically testable hypotheses are derived from an evolving theory of democratic norms positing that democratic leaders operate within certain normative constraints to regulate and resolve political conflict both at home and abroad. These hypotheses contend that democracy, working through norms instilled in political leaders, will both influence states' acquiescence to third party conflict managers and condition the effectiveness of their management efforts. The primary objective of the research is to systematically evaluate these hypothesized relationships against the historical record of militarized interstate disputes. Because there were so few fully democratic states in existence prior to World War II, the temporal domain of the study begins in 1946 and extends through 1992, the last year of recorded interstate disputes. Militarized interstate disputes provide a novel and important test bed for these hypotheses, not only because much of what is known about international conflict has been derived from studies of militarized disputes, but also because they constitute the most widely used and thoroughly investigated compilation of interstate conflict episodes currently available. Empirically based answers to the questions raised by these hypotheses are expected to have both theoretical and practical implications for how we understand and deal with international conflict. But this empirical evaluation cannot proceed without systematic identification and documentation of conflict management by third parties, information that does not now exist within the conceptual and operational context of militarized disputes. This collection of new data constitutes a secondary objective of the research, but also entails a side-benefit in the form of a new data resource on international conflict management with potential application well beyond the present study. Thus what is new and distinctive about this effort is that it extends explicit consideration of conflict management to the heretofore uncharted territory of militarized interstate disputes.

该项目旨在提高我们对民主和第三方中介在塑造国际冲突的轮廓和结果方面的相互作用的理解。 四个实证检验的假设来自民主规范的理论，民主领导人在一定的规范约束下运作，以规范和解决国内和国外的政治冲突。 这些假设认为，民主，通过规范灌输给政治领导人，既会影响国家的默许第三方冲突管理者和条件的有效性，他们的管理努力。 研究的主要目的是系统地评估这些假设的关系对军事化的国家间争端的历史记录。 由于在第二次世界大战之前，完全民主的国家非常少，因此研究的时间范围从1946年开始，一直延伸到1992年，这是有记录的国家间争端的最后一年。 军事化的国家间争端为这些假设提供了一个新颖而重要的测试平台，这不仅是因为人们对国际冲突的了解大部分来自对军事化争端的研究，而且还因为它们构成了目前可用的最广泛使用和最彻底调查的国家间冲突事件汇编。 这些假设所提出的问题的经验为基础的答案，我们如何理解和处理国际冲突的理论和实践的影响。 但是，如果没有第三方对冲突管理的系统识别和记录，这种经验性评估就无法进行，而在军事化争端的概念和行动背景下，目前并不存在这种信息。 收集这些新数据是研究的次要目标，但也带来了一个附带的好处，即形成了一个关于国际冲突管理的新数据资源，其应用范围可能远远超出本研究报告。 因此，这一努力的新颖之处和独特之处在于，它将冲突管理的明确考虑扩展到军事化国家间争端的未知领域。